MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

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on 8/26/02 8:44 PM, John Bailey at johnbonbailey at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> Don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but 'tooth', as in you broke mine,
> does have more than the obvious meaning. I suppose it's my particular bias,
> but when thinking about this passage I couldn't help making associations of
> tooth = cog... like, you broke my place in the mechanism...not the first
> time we've seen clockwork metaphors, chains, systems, machines, what have
> ya. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch to go with the tooth-of-a-wheel
> implication here, would it? Maybe.
> 
> Then again, does Pynchon ever smoke cigars? Are they really just cigars?
> Ever wonder if he just dashes off a page and never proofs it for double- (to
> dodecahedral-) meanings?
> 
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"I was operating on the motto 'Make it literary', a piece of bad advice I
made up all by myself and then took." Of course, he's playin' with all
ya'll. He's that good.